Si ;D - we are all immigrants!

Nice text in Aftenposten's page for young people's opinion 'Si ;D', last saturday. Written by Johanna B, 15 years old.

Kill your dahlings...

I just re-read an old blog-post with advice from Havlandet. it said:

Kill your darlings, before they kill you.

It fits with todays decision of ditching one of the first exhibition ideas that came up. I think that the original idea of "This is your connection to the world" - is good, but as it had been worked into deal with everyday food instead, it didn't quite sit anymore. And it certainly didn't justify the amount of money we were going to have to spend on it. That is now freed up to spend on other things that would be nice, like projections of footsteps walking around the exhibition space and shadows moving across the walls. Perhaps.

Frode ftw

Frode Ljøkjell (link in Norwegian only, sorry) has started working with us as a 3D designer to work out details and volumes. We have had several meetings and it seems to me that this will work out well. Here is one of his first sketches.Frode's responsibilities will be to shape and construct the various parts of the physical structures.

Pensive need

I am in a pensive mood, tired of colours and forms, and especially tired of creating someting that so many will have an opinion of, so publicly. I have dedicated the day to start preparing for my application for final appraisal and sort through the stuff I'm going to write when autumn sets in.

MGP

I was watching MGP last weekend(?). MGP? The Eurovision Songcontest (Norwegian part)! They said the show was the best in 10-15 years. I certainly enjoyed it :) and I haven't watched for... maybe that long, maybe longer :)

In the beginning of the show one of the presenters said;

...og dokker trur sikkert at det bli litt sånn kniving når en reise rundt med MGP, men sånn e det ikke! Vi e verdens beste venna!"

("You probably think there is rivalry (between the artists) while travelling around with this kind of show. That's not how it is! We are the worlds best friends!") Then all the artists had to say something nice about the artist that was about to sing. Maybe that atmosphere of friendship is part of what made the show so good? Research has now shown that schools that work against harassment (mobbing) have better academic results. Ofc for a lot of us this is not news. Others need research to prove it. :)